linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: twofish-avx

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Date:	Fri, 6 Jul 2012 02:13:00 +0200
From:	Johannes Goetzfried 
	<Johannes.Goetzfried@...ormatik.stud.uni-erlangen.de>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: twofish-avx - remove useless instruction

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 08:46:12PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Is it useless, or is it there to harden against some side-channel
> attack?

When writing this implementation, I first had a different approach with more
data getting read in and I just forgot to delete this instruction in the end.
The instruction didn't have any purpose regarding side-channel attacks. In the
decryption routine the instruction has been correctly deleted in the same
place.
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